Got 1 on the Mahonieloop (S99) this week - lifer for me! Seen on the first bend of the loop as you go anti-clockwise around the loop. The bird flew into the Terminalia sp. trees in the morning. It has been reported on the Mahonieloop in Sept/Oct 2008 as well as Dec 2008, but alas the most reliable place to look for them is in the Makuleke concession.

Happy birding

There is nothing like looking, if u want to find sumthing. You certainly usually find sumthing, if u look, but it is not always quite the sumthing you were after. - JRR Tolkien.

A colleague of mine has seen it about a month or so ago in the Pafuri region, but the again he works in Kruger and it was during a two week field excursion taking samples for anthrax research and he only saw them once.

Has been a boggy bird for me even when Dr Ian Whyte took us to the most likely spot where they were seen days before the 2007 Birding Day.